Executive summary of the issue brief on understanding defined contribution health plans. (
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Task Force on Genetic Testing Issues issue brief describing the nature of disability income and long-term care insurance and discussing, from the perspectives of both consumers and insurers, the implications of the newly emerging genetic technologies for these products. Strategies to effectively address this emerging dilemma of how best to respond to public concerns about the possible misuse of genetic information, while preserving the viability of the voluntary, individual disability income and long-term care insurance markets, are also explored. (
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Executive summary of the issue brief on the use of genetic information in disability income and long-term care insurance. (
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Retiree Health Work Group outline of six possible approaches that could be used as “safe harbor” methods for meeting nondiscrimination-testing requirements under EEOC guidelines for retiree health care plans. (
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Health Plan Work Group comments on the association health plan (AHP) provisions in Title IV, Subtitle B of the Bipartisan Patient Protection Act (H.R. 2563), which would amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to establish a new “Part 8—Rules Governing Association Health Plans. (
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High-Risk Pools Work Group testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee on using health care tax credits to decrease the number of uninsured individuals. (
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Health Practice Financial
Reporting Committee report to the NAIC on areas of appearance of inconsistencies among the various sources of accounting guidance and industry practice or variation by legal entity. (
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Genetic Testing Issues Task Force issue brief seeking to help policymakers and the public better understand the risk classification process in the long-term care and individual disability income markets. (
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Health Practice Financial Reporting Committee letter proposing several amendments to paragraphs within SSAP 54. (
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Managed Care Reform Work Group issue brief assisting policymakers in understanding the scope of applicability of proposed pateient protection legislation and the ability of enrollees to file legal action against their health plan. (
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